In this special episode of ‘Crime Scene Echocardiography: Vienna‘, the 123sonography team show how echocardiography can be used for good as they put their skills to the test and try to solve a mysterious case of dyspnea in a 39 year-old man.
As you will see, apart from our Austrian Sonography friends demonstrating that they have excellent taste in emergency medicine blogs, they demonstrate that the patient appears to have a dilated cardiomyopathy on echo. Interestingly, it turns out that twenty-eight years previously he was accidentally shot in the chest and required an operation. Could his current cardiac condition be related to what happened all those years ago?
Watch the video — featuring ‘ballistic echocardiography‘ — and all will be revealed:
Makes you want to run out and start echo’ing everything that moves, eh… But what if you can’t tell an atrium from an armpit?
Well we’ve raved about the free video resources available on 123sonography.com before, but if you’re serious about getting to grips with echocardiography you might be interested to know that they have just launched their full online echocardiography course (registration is required, but a free trial is available). Judging from what I’ve seen so far, this elearning course may well help condemn traditional lecture-based and remote learning systems to history’s scrap heap. Here’s hoping…
On a lighter note, given such meritorius work, it appears that any nagging concerns that the sono-gurus from 123sonography.com are somehow linked to Hans Gruber and the bad guys from ‘Die Hard’, can be laid to rest… for now at least.
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What does he mean there are no Kangaroos in Austria? They’re native… oh and they’re very tasty…perhaps thats what he was aiming for with the gun…
Well no it was actually an insider… We are from Austria and for some reason everbody confuses us with aussies. So just to make things clear
In India, often when I said I was from New Zealand, they’d get it confused with Switzerland… ?
BTW, Thomas, I completely understand why you wouldn’t want to be mistaken for an Australian.
C
In India, often when I said I was from New Zealand, they’d get it confused with Switzerland… ?
BTW, Thomas, I completely understand why you wouldn’t want to be mistaken for an Australian.
C
LOL well maybe its just a minority complex. But it did itch me to mention it in the 123sonography emergency echo post.